busybee fluffy rambles

So, I was on meclizine for a couple days, and it is definitely not the right med for me.

Basically, it made me super tired and pretty much constantly sleepy or on the edge of falling asleep (like, to the extent that I was experiencing hypnagogia), and it wasn’t helping my vertigo at all.

What’s more, for vertigo it’s meant to be used as a rescue med and not a maintenance med, getting tolerant to it can cause some major problems, and it has a bad interaction with my rescue inhaler. I’m not even sure how it would be useful as a rescue med given that my vertigo attacks usually last 10-15 seconds and are brought on at random, and it takes about an hour to kick in.

Right now my best hope seems to be the vestibular rehabilitation physical therapy I’ve been prescribed. My intake appointment for that is in about two weeks. I also have a neurologist appointment next week, which will hopefully provide some amount of clarity.